Today was a great day I had my first flight lesson in a Cirrus SR22, my favorite airplane. Even better, it's a Turbo model with all the bells and whistles lots of electronics for the geek in me
Sometimes I refer to flying as "looking at the tops of cows." I've actually been surprised by how prevalent cows are. No one has cows in the far north, because there is nothing for them to eat, but as
Ahhhhhhh. It feels good to be done. All this studying, all this time away from home, just for one thing, to pass the dreaded checkride. Its like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can fin
There’s something to look at in the annual speech by FAA Administrator. Two quotes just don’t seem to mesh very well. First, there’s the self pat on the back:“If you want to be a first-rate
On the way to work this morning, I was running errands, and just happened to be near the airport. As usual when there's nice weather, like this morning, I'm thinking "I'd rather be flying". So I did.
Finally, a day off! This is the first one (including weekends) since 8/13 (if you consider that day a day off - recovering from the jet lag after the Yosemite stargazing trip). Before that the previ
Since late last week - around the time of the flight test actually - I've been having sinus problems. Last weekend was one long energy slump and the last couple of days haven't be great either.&
With some anxiety I keyed the mic just as the sun was rising over southern NY:
“NY Approach, N73450″
” N73450, go ahead”
“NY Approach N73450 is a Cessna 172, level 3000ft
Discovered while trying to debug my nav data loading scripts: The Hendersonville Airport (0A7) and the “W.N.C. Museum Airport” (8NC9) are only 0.03 nautical miles apart, but they’re
The SAS gear collapse accidents have sparked a lot of conversation on the internet and in the crew rooms. A landing gear failure like this is pretty rare, and two identical failures within three days
I remember seeing once a little amphibious helicopter with what looked like inflatable kayaks in place of skids. I don't know what sort it was. It was only a little bigger than an R22, and it was priv
My ‘bestest buddy in the whole-wide-world’ (so he tells me!) lives in Ottawa. We like to meet up at least once and better still twice a year. Me being a pilot and him a keen wannabe, I also like
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